STANDING PREDICTION FOR SOLAR
CYCLE 24: Solar Cycle 24 has begun (as of January 2008) and may produce the most
active sun of recorded history. Its activity will peak during
2011-2014. As solar activity gradually increases, both environmental dynamics and
human behavior and emotionalism will shift into a more rapid flux of
activity and reactivity. Solar Cycle 23 engendered deep, bitter
polarizations in the world, especially in Palestine, the Middle East,
and vis a vis the United States, both internationally and domestically.
Rather than resolve divisions and conflict, humans accentuated them
during this last Solar Cycle. Accordingly, during the coming cycle
human reactivity and tendency to fear and violence will become greater
and could easily match the "historical record-breaking" which the Sun's
activity is likely to produce with Sunspots, Storms, Flares, and Ionic
Wind Gusts.

Under this growing pressure, both the terrestrial
environment and human societies will be subject to immense dynamic flux
which will alter both the greater expanse of the Earth as well as the
nations and the affairs of humans. Global Warming will accelerate more
rapidly, mass migrations will become more frequent, more agriculture and
oceanic food sources will fail, more nations will collapse (as in
Africa), and the general level of violence will increase in many areas.

The exceptionally strong internal polarization in the U.S. against the
Cabal of banksters and their oil-soaked Junta, and as well the
antagonistic international polarization against the U.S., likely will be
resolved by acceleration of a chronic "half-collapse" of the
current economic and political system in the U.S. This period will be
marked by paralysis of politics and a chaotic period of increased
repression and rebellion which gradually destroys the power of Federal
agencies which have usurped far too much illegal (unconstitutional)
power.

Likely the period will also spawn many concerted efforts to
change major aspects of the constitution of the U.S. and the structure
of its government. In the short term, increased international
militarism may be attempted by the intellectually and morally bankrupt Zionazi puppetmasters who manipulate and strongly influence nearly all
institutions in the U.S. East Coast. These attempts may be and
probably will be made in various guises regardless of which political
party "wins" the November 08 national U.S. elections.

For additional information
on the influence of Sunspots and Solar Activity Cycles, go to the Earth
Changes Solar Gallery. (this link not active yet).

Visible Sun Of
May 12, 2008: Credit:
SOHO/MDI

[5-12-08 ECB]The Sunspot Count
was zip all week and the Flux was 67 until rising to
68 on May 11, which is about as low as it
ever gets. There are no coronal holes, no solar wind, and no
disturbances in the atmosphere. Despite the torpor, another major
prominence was seen.. The Planetary A Magnetic Index (upper atmosphere field
strength) is stable at about 5. Any disturbances in the next week are likely to be at at low levels. The planetary
alignments of May 11 have already lost their influence (they lost it a
week ago) and it will take at least another two to three weeks to build
Solar Flux for the next alignment of Mercury and Earth on June 6 or so. See Planetary Alignments
for longer range forecast.

[5-12-08 ECB]NASA
reports no Sunspot on the far side of the Sun. Not that this
pix indicates they are right up to date....[Holographic
image credit: SOHO/MDI]

[4-7-08 ECB]Quick
Solar Activity Forecast From Planetary Alignments: In general
during the first half of the
year, sunspot peaks should be about on par with most of 2007.
Solar Cycle 24 has begun, but its initial birthing activity will look
like the dying days of Solar Cycle 23. Thus activity for the most
part will not be very consequential. But during the second half of
the year, Solar Activity should noticeably accelerate as a result of
planetary stimulation. Watch out in June. We may get heavy
rains and floods during the last three weeks of June with a major surge
of Solar Activity brought by a meeting of Jupiter and Mercury with Earth
captive in their train. [5-12-08 ECB] Accordingly, is likely that the next several weeks
will see a less energetic Sun than in March and conditions will coast moderately into
June to produce a more much normal late Spring. Watch for
June 6, when Mercury | Earth with Mars still closely aligned with
Saturn. This double header likely will spritz up considerable
Solar Activity about the beginning of June and this activity may be on
par or even more energetic than March's surge of 67 Sunspots.
The middle of June should easily exceed March in overall storminess and
the weather may not "normalize" until July.

A VERY SUCCESSFUL
PREDICTION: (THIS ONE WAS MADE DURING LATE FEBRUARY/EARLY MARCH): As
predicted during the last few weeks,
Sunspot
Activity has increased for the rapidly
forming Mercury | Jupiter alignment. This peak may fall again until about
March 28 when the Count is likely to rise again for the April 3-5
alignment of Mercury and Venus. [3-24-2008 ADDENDUM]
Originally predicted: By far the strongest peak should
be for Mercury | Venus, which means that stormy weather on Earth should
once again pick up energy from the ionic input.A
rise in activity has already begun for this coupling between the two
inner planets. It now looks like this will produce an energetic
peak in Sunspots, they could rise into the count range of 30-50 and if
so they will probably have a dramatic impact on the weather during the
following week.

IMPORTANT NOTE
WHICH MOST PEOPLE STILL ARE NOT GETTING:

The Sun is at
minimum levels of activity - it is at its lowest ebb since 1997. Thus the climate patterns this year have nothing to do
with solar cycles and are entirely related to global warming phenomenon
produced by tectonic causes.

MAY'S EXTREMES IN
CYCLONES (Myanmar) AND TORNADOES (N.A. Midwest & Plains) PLAINLY AND
ABSOLUTELY IS NOT A RESULT OF STIMULUS FROM THE SUN NOR NATURAL NOR
HUMAN-CAUSED CONDITIONS IN THE ATMOSPHERE. This can only by Global
Warming Syndrome, showing us what the new weather "normal" is becoming
as the Earth's oceans continue to gradually warm.

Sunspot Count Chart:In this chart above the
black line is the Solar Flux as measured in orbit near the Earth, the
red line is the Sunspot Number and the blue line is a measure of the
strength of the magnetic field in the Earth’s high atmosphere (called
the Planetary A Index).

[5-12-08
ECB]NASA reports no coronal holes in the Sun's atmosphere.
NASA predicts a 1%
probability of solar flares (X to M, respectively) during the next 48
hours.NASA
predicts there is a 5% to 250% probability of major magnetic disturbances
in the high latitudes during the next 48 hours.Pix
Credit: NOAA

[2-4-08 ECB]Passage To Solar Cycle 24:
Solar Cycle 23 never gave us a a
full 30 days of 0 Sunspots but the data compiled below by Alvestad makes
it fairly clear that October was the MIN month and Solar Cycle 24 began,
as we pointed out here, more or less in November 2007. (This would
be according to a traditional statistical method of determining the
transition point. A newer magnetic polarity model is now being
used as well and this method points toward January 2008 as the first
month of Cycle 24).

[5-5-08 ECB]Take a good look at the last three
lines in this chart. You will notice that in March solar activity
began to surge up (from 2.1 to 9.3 average Sunspot Number).
Then is April the surge dropped the Sunspot Number way down.
It fell far below the predicted number and suggests a much slower
start to Sunspot Cycle 24 NASA scientists are predicting. What makes
the difference in these three lines. Planetary Alignments were
more numerous and involved more of the inner planets during March.
So it will be in May and June.

MAGNETIC
DISTURBANCES (As Shown By Fluxgate
Monitor at the
University
of
Alaska)

[5-12-08 ECB] Fluxgate Monitor shows very
little disturbance and conditions most likely will remain quite mild
for another few weeks. Expect to see much more disturbance
about the beginning of June than has been seen so far in this graph for the past five
months. (Always keep in mind that even during a
Solar Min period, intense X class flares and CME's occasionally
occur and produce intense magnetic storms in the atmosphere.)

CLICK ON GRAPH
FOR EXPANDED VIEW

The Planets
of the Horos Sun(in the Fourth Age of Human
Memory)

PLANETARY ACTIVITY: Skywatching, Planet Alignments, Moon,
Asteroids

The
Inner Four Planets set inside the ring of the asteroid belt and the orbit of
Jupiter. Each point of light is an
actual representation of a planet, asteroid, or comet (plus the Sun of
course), set within a true scale of distance as of April 1.
The positions of all numbered asteroids and all
numbered
comets in JPL's small-body database
are shown (as of April 1, 2007 ). Asteroids are yellow dots,
comets are the pale blurry smudges. We are looking down on the Solar
System, overlooking the "North Pole" of the Earth. As can be seen, our
Solar System is a pretty busy place.

IMAGE PRODUCED BY
MICA, software & data from the JPL & U.S. Naval Observatory

If you want to
learn how to follow the stars at night and get deeper into the cosmic scene
of the planetary alignments, how the solar system actually works, and so
forth, start using this. It is centered for 4 AM Greenwich Tuesdays
(the map is changed for each weekly update) for Arizona Mountain Time (no daylight
savings- 9 pm Monday evening) at 2000 meter elevation on approximately Black
Mesa, Hopi Land. This projection is
produced by U.S. Navy Observatory MICA software and Ephemeris (Ephemeris is
maintained on line by JPL). It is more or less the world standard of
algorithms for precisely tracking the cosmos and the software is such a snap
to use to create powerful results, I cannot resist using it. With this
you can stand on the bridge of a vessel at sea and navigate like they used
to do (but no longer, its all satellite positioning now, but old habits die
not at all in the navies of the world). Hopi Land was selected as the
focal point because this provides the same approximate night sky to New
Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California (with a little time
delay). Sorry, you folks in the Pacific Northwest will not be able to
use this very well, you need your own projection. As a rough and ready
make-do, just face the South and look for the relevant items about 10 to 20
degrees lower than indicated in the chart. Like California, expect
events in the chart to be one hour earlier than your time.

PLANET WATCH:

[5-12-2008]
Arcturus, the Sun of our Sun, is now coming into view in the eastern
half of the sky, nearly to the ascendent (directly overhead) in
approximately the zodiac belt. See if you can find it using the
sky chart above. It is a vividly bright star. You can also
easily identity Saturn tonight. The waxing Moon will be nearly
dead on it. Just look for the brightest point of light near the Moon and
that will probably be it.

[5-5-2008] At Sunset, catch a view of Mercury.
It is a tiny but bright point of light in the western sky at sunset.
NASA claims: "the innermost planet is putting on its best
show of 2008". Here is a spectacular pix from Tenerife.

For a
listing of all planetary alignments and charts for 2008, click onto the
2008 Alignment
Almanac. Sunspot
and solar activity should peak generally 8 to 3 days in advance of these
alignment dates but keep in mind that some times the solar peak comes in
on the day or the day after the alignment.

May 11, 2008 - Mercury |
Mars | Saturn

The last significant alignment of planets in
2008 was Mercury | Mars, assisted by Saturn on or
about May 11. Already Mercury is moving rapidly out of alignment
with these planets, moving rapidly towards Earth. This alignment
was on the same side of the Sun as
Earth and brought in a minor Sunspot Peak of about a dozen sunspots on
about May 3/4.

June 6, 2008 - Mercury |
Earth
(accompanied by Mars | Saturn)

This alignment should give give us quite an
upsurge in stormy weather from the Sun's atmosphere to the Earth's
atmosphere. Expect then that massive oceanic storm surges will begin to
roll in about this time and persist for a least a week until perhaps the
Summer Solstice. This may be just the beginning of the ride. On
June 17, mighty Jupiter confers with Mercury.

June 17, 2008 - Mercury |
Earth | Jupiter

Wow. Expect the massive oceanic storm surges
which began to roll in at the end of the first week in June to
persist through most of June. RAIN AND FLOODS IN ALL THE USUAL
PLACES for this time of year. Oh well, this should keep the
grass green until late in July.

To quickly surmise the situation for the
week, use these graphs below by clicking on their titles.
Use these graphs which are drawn by MWM from JPL Ephemeris table data to find PERIGEE,
DECLINATION, AND PHASE (NEW OR FULL MOON). Once you
figure out how to read them, which is not difficult, you will find these
more powerful than words.
Please note that you may have to click on the
pictures in the browser to instruct your browser to display them in their
full size.

Declination (Dragon Cycle)
and Distance (Perigee Cycle) define the strongest and most extreme moments
of Lunar influence on the Earth. Distances of less than 365,000 KM indicate
Perigees with the Lunar gravity field considerably stronger than average.
Declinations of 27 or 28 indicate an extreme position of the Moon over the
Northern (+) or Southern Hemisphere (-). A high declination with a low
distance for Perigee exerts significantly greater torque on the Earth in
zones which do not usually receive so much. The "timing" of these "moments"
creates "windows" of exceptional syzygy. These relationships are best
viewed in graph form.

THIS PREDICTION CAME TRUE IN SPADES: [5-5-08 ECB]The
lunar cycles are now moving into closer synchronicity for May and June.
Accordingly, lunar influence on the tectonic plates should now begin to
increase quake and volcanic activity and produce larger spikes in
frequency and magnitude, beginning approximately next week.

[5-12-08 ECB] The Moon
is waxing rapidly and is already nearly halfway to Full which it
will reach on May 20. Its orbit is at close to the average
distance but it is still fairly far to the North, in the range of 25
degrees north of the Equator. It will approach its Extreme
Southern
Declination on May 21, just one day after Full. Expect a
stronger surge in tectonic motion for a few days between May 18 and May
24 but keep in mind that the Moon will be in Apogee during this time,
its furthest point from the Earth. Thus its influence should be
slightly less than during the previous Full Moon phase.
There will be another similar weak synchronization
in June of 2008, then strong dis-synchronization until November
2008. November will begin a new round of synchronized Lunar cycles, with
December producing the strongest synchronization of the year in a near
perfect alignment with the Earth's Perihelion, during both the New Moon
(Dec. 27/28) and Full Moon (Dec. 13). These then are likely months of
the greatest quake events and these are likely to exceed the tectonic
activity of April/ May/June.

[4-28-08
ECB] STANDING
SYZYGY ANALYSIS FOR THE YEAR.There will be a weak synchronization
in May and June of 2008, then strong dis-synchronization until November
2008. November will begin a new round of synchronized Lunar cycles, with
December producing the strongest synchronization of the year in a near
perfect alignment with the Earth's Perihelion, during both the New Moon
(Dec. 27/28) and Full Moon (Dec. 13). These then are likely months of
the greatest quake events.

[5-12-08 ECB]
THIS PREDICTION MADE IN PREVIOUS WEEKS IS LIKELY NOW WRONG INSOFAR AS
MAJOR AND GREAT QUAKES GO: "for the most part 2008 is likely to be a
"middling year" for seismic activity, perhaps even slightly diminished
from 2006/2007 levels." This may be still
true for the total number of Class 4 and Class 5 quakes.

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks
larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU.
None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although
astronomers are finding
new ones all
the time.See
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/groups.html

Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1
LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals
0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of
closest approach.

METEOR & COMET ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM NASA

NASA REPORTS:"ETA AQUARID METEORS: If you see a
meteor flit across the sky tonight, it's probably a piece of Halley's
Comet. Earth is crossing through a stream of dusty debris from Halley
and this is causing the annual eta Aquarid meteor shower. Sky watchers
in the tropics and southern hemisphere (where the shower is most
intense) could see as many as 70 meteors per hour during the dark hours
before dawn on Monday, May 12th, and Tuesday, May 6th. Sky maps: north,
south"